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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Ashford Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Ashford website
24,114 approved · 3,424 refused · 2,677 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Jul 2004 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
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Chadwicks, Green Lane, Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3ST
Received 26 Sept 2018Reed House, 1-3 Old Ashford Road, Charing, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0JG
Received 25 Sept 2018Heather Cottage, 2 Townland Green, Front Road, Woodchurch, Ashford, TN26 3SD
Received 27 Sept 201812 Garden Place, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9DZ
Received 2 Oct 2018Oxenturn House, Upper Bridge Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5AW
Received 3 Oct 2018Hothfield Manor Brain Injury Centre, Church Lane, Hothfield
Received 16 Nov 201862 The Street, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0JD
Received 19 Nov 2018Cheyney House, 8 Stable Court, Chilham Castle Estate, Chilham, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 8DB
Received 13 Feb 201911-14 Marshalls Land, Tenterden, Kent
Received 14 Feb 2019Wye Village Hall, Bridge Street, Wye, Kent
Received 18 Feb 2019Wye Village Hall, Bridge Street, Wye, Kent
Received 18 Feb 20199 Collie Drive, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3GR
Received 20 Jul 2018116 High Street, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6HT
Received 23 Jul 20181 Lower Road, Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3SQ
Received 23 Jul 2018Brick Kiln Farm, Wye Road, Boughton Aluph, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4JA
Received 20 Jul 2018Woodland next to Townland, Six Fields Path, Tenterden, Kent
Received 23 Jul 201821 The Spinney, Ashford, TN23 3LF
Received 24 Jul 2018Folk Meadow, Tenterden Road, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8DW
Received 25 Jul 2018Hatfield Cottage, The Street, Chilham, Canterbury, CT4 8DP
Received 20 Jul 201825A Canterbury Road, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8LD
Received 27 Jul 2018Store room adjacent to Public Conviences, Recreation Ground Road, Tenterden, Kent
Received 27 Jul 2018Ashminster House, Clive Dennis Court, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0LX
Received 30 Jul 201863 Upper Queens Road, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8HL
Received 30 Jul 2018Orchard Glade, Tenterden Road, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8DW
Received 25 Jul 2018Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Ashford Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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